"Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness"

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Source : Mark Mirabello (2005). “The Cannibal Within”, p.59, Mandrake

Mark Mirabello

#Fall Quotes #Self Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.”
“We can never be born enough.”
“No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.”
“Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.”
“If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.”

Source : Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.11, Penguin
“People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.”
“Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.”

Source : "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.
“I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am so I used that time to write. And I chose to write about food and wine. Along the way I carved out a role for myself.”

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